1 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:05,760 All right, grab your Bible. If you open it right to the 2 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:08,440 middle, you'll be in the Psalms. We're going to be starting a new 3 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:11,560 series today. Series is entitled. 4 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:15,760 He shall be called. And the conviction behind this 5 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:19,880 comes out of Numbers chapter 6. You might be familiar with what 6 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:24,960 is called the Priestly Blessing. That's where Aaron is told by 7 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,120 Moses that he needs to bless the people. 8 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:29,760 You know, the Lord bless you, the Lord keep you, make his face 9 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:31,760 to shine upon you, Be gracious to you. 10 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:34,720 I don't know if that's familiar at all, but right at the very 11 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:38,640 end, there's an interesting line that jumped out of me. 12 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:42,040 It says there, when you do this, Moses is telling Aaron the 13 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:44,160 priest. He says when when the priests do 14 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:47,240 this of the people, essentially it says you will be putting 15 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:51,560 God's name on the people and by doing so, he will bless you. 16 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:54,240 And so that's what we want to do in the series. 17 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:57,440 We want to put the name of God on you and trust that He would 18 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:00,960 bless you, the name of God on your season, on your situation. 19 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:03,440 Your struggles, your fears, your future. 20 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:08,600 Your December your 2026 We want to highlight one of the names of 21 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:11,960 God, the nature and character of God, place it upon his people 22 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:13,240 and trust. That he'd be. 23 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:16,600 Faithful to the promise that he would bless us through his name. 24 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:21,000 So if you're in Psalms, head on over to Psalm 23 because this. 25 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,640 Is the name. That I want to put on you this 26 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:26,160 morning. The Lord is our shepherd. 27 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:33,360 So if Psalm 23 in its entirety, the Lord is my shepherd, I lack 28 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:37,200 nothing, or I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green 29 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:38,560 pastures. He leads me. 30 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:41,880 Besides still waters. And he restores my soul. 31 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:45,920 He guides me through the right paths for his name's sake and 32 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:47,720 even though I walk. Through the valley of the shadow 33 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:50,200 of death, or the darkest valley, I will. 34 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:52,040 Fear no evil. Because the. 35 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:54,680 Shepherd is with me. His rod and his staff. 36 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:57,280 They comfort me. He prepares a table before me in 37 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:00,840 the presence of my enemies, even anoints my head with oil, so 38 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:04,160 much so that my cup. Overflows surely? 39 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:07,440 His goodness and His mercy will follow me all the days of my. 40 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:10,440 Life and I will dwell in the House of the Lord forever. 41 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:16,880 It's a very familiar portion of Scripture, but we can often miss 42 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:19,080 what's the saying miss the forest for the trees? 43 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:22,960 So I just want to extrapolate one thing out of what it means 44 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:27,520 metaphorically, biblically. To be a shepherd because. 45 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:29,640 I don't know if there are any shepherds in the room here 46 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:33,800 today, but even if there were, what he's going after, what 47 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,120 David is going after, referencing God. 48 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:38,880 As his Shepherd. Is very unique. 49 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,920 Actually, there's there's many. You know, it's sort of cascades 50 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:45,640 in in many different ways, but there's one overarching phrase 51 00:02:45,640 --> 00:02:47,360 every commentary. You read every. 52 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:52,040 Lexicon you look at in the Hebrew highlights this one 53 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:54,960 thing, and it's kind of strange. And essentially, it's this that 54 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:57,640 a shepherd tends to his. Sheep. 55 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:01,400 TENDS. He tends to a sheep. 56 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:04,120 Now that's not really a word that I often use in in English. 57 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:08,320 Maybe the tendapreneurs use it a little bit more, but to to tend 58 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:12,200 to the sheep, there's not that to tend to the sheep, according 59 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:13,520 to the Bible dictionary is the following. 60 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:16,880 And there's a staggering statement when he tends. 61 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:21,400 To his sheep he satisfies the soul's deepest. 62 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:27,920 Yearning to tend to you. The desire of the Shepherd. 63 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:31,120 Tending to a sheep. Is to satisfy your soul's. 64 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:34,200 Deepest yearning, that thing that you're searching for, 65 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,480 yearning for that emptiness that you have been carrying all your 66 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:40,560 life. Because notice it says there I 67 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:44,240 shall not once I lack nothing when he tends to our souls. 68 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,080 But the problem is it still doesn't quite land. 69 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:48,880 I was thinking, you know, if you've been here through 70 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:52,520 Ecclesiastes, essentially to tend to the sheep or to be 71 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:55,520 wading into our Hevel and turning it into Tov. 72 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,880 But even that sort of doesn't doesn't give the nuances that I 73 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:02,960 think David is after. So I think if we invert it, it's 74 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:06,680 kind of the opposite begins to make a little bit more sense. 75 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:08,840 And Charles Spurgeon says the following he. 76 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:15,400 Says a soul. Untended is a soul, insatiable a 77 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:17,440 soul. Untended is a soul. 78 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:21,160 Insatiable, be ready. To be impressed, the Afrikaans 79 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:26,120 word is on for. Sadhbar yo-yo yo. 80 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:32,360 Drop the mark on for Sadhbar, right? 81 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:35,000 Is where you. Cannot get enough? 82 00:04:35,280 --> 00:04:38,280 You just want more and more. You need another pair of shoes 83 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:41,600 and another glass of wine. The attention of another woman 84 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:45,400 on for Sadhbar, right? Essentially, all our addictions 85 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:49,040 are born out of an untended soul. 86 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:52,160 Now, fortunately, we have none of that in the church, so we can 87 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:56,320 just move right along, right? I'm going to lean just a little 88 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:57,200 bit. Bear with me. 89 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:01,280 I read an article in the Newsweek a while back. 90 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:02,760 I was. Actually chatting to Mel. 91 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:05,320 I'm a bit of a maven. I'm always collecting stuff. 92 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,360 This was from about 2000. And 4-5 but the. 93 00:05:08,520 --> 00:05:11,200 Thing was how to say no to your kids. 94 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,720 This is a. Secular article in Newsweek how 95 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:19,000 to say no to your kids. And it was basically going after 96 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,360 that. Yeah, but mom, everyone has one. 97 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:25,640 And they say the following. They say getting what they want. 98 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:31,640 Doesn't satisfy kids they. Only want more because we are 99 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:35,720 insatiable by nature. It goes on to say you want to be 100 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:39,040 their best friend, mom, dad. Make sure they get everything 101 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:42,120 they need or what they need is for their parents. 102 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:44,640 To be parents. And to say no. 103 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:48,000 And then they added this clang out, put it up on the screen. 104 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:51,560 Over indulged Children become adults. 105 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:55,200 With failed. Coping mechanisms, stigmatizing 106 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:59,480 entitlement, self-centered and self absorbed anxiety, panic 107 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:02,800 attacks, and depression. Now let's just pin that over 108 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:05,160 here. Scooch across to this side. 109 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:07,880 Gen. Z, Gen. 110 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:09,360 Z, but it just sounds cooler. Gen. 111 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:14,240 Z They are now 20 somethings starting to apply for their 112 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:20,000 first jobs, found a study that said 77% of these 20 somethings 113 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:27,160 brought one of their parents to the job interview, 40% of their 114 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:34,120 parents set in on the job interview and 27% of said 115 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:38,320 parents negotiated compensation and benefits for little Johnny. 116 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:41,640 Some are laughing, some are blushing. 117 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:43,880 It's like, oh gosh, how did you know? 118 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:47,040 Don't. Hear what I'm not saying, what 119 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:49,040 I'm trying to highlight. Is the Bible says. 120 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:52,000 Train up a child in the way they should go and they will not 121 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:55,040 depart from it. The reason why we have 122 00:06:55,160 --> 00:07:00,440 insatiable children is because we as their parents do not know 123 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:02,880 how to lead them. To their shepherd, beautiful. 124 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,600 I wonder if we did some stats here, you know, passed around a 125 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:11,400 QR code and we had some Intel anonymous. 126 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:13,520 I wonder what the status show how many of us have? 127 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:16,280 Sat with our children and said this is. 128 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:21,160 How I follow my shepherd? This is how I read scripture. 129 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:26,120 I do my quiet time like this. This is how I discern the will 130 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:28,360 of my Heavenly Father, my Shepherd. 131 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:34,600 His good and perfect will. These are the books of the 132 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:35,400 Bible. I suggest you. 133 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:37,240 Read and this is the order because it will give to you the 134 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:41,320 mental narrative and this is how I have my Heavenly Father tend 135 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:42,880 to my soul. I wonder what those? 136 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:47,040 Stats would look like. We buy them the iPhone. 137 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:49,680 We don't teach them and lead them to the. 138 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:53,000 Shepherd of our souls. David says the Lord is my 139 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,880 shepherd. Can you say the same? 140 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:00,040 So what does it mean for the Shepherd to tend to us? 141 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:03,520 Well, if you brought your Bible. You tell me. 142 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:06,560 How many people OK? So both of you who brought 143 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:09,720 Bibles, the rest of you start. There you want to know how the 144 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:11,280 shepherd tends to your. Soul. 145 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:15,280 All right, OK, take a look. It says right there. 146 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:17,560 He makes me lie down in green pastures. 147 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,720 That's how he tends to our soul. He makes me lie down in green. 148 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:24,120 Pastures I discovered this. I love to. 149 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:26,240 Find rabbit holes. Maybe this was a sheep hole. 150 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:29,840 But I've discovered the fact. That sheep will not lie down. 151 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:33,480 This is, according to a guy named Philip Keller, no relation 152 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:36,960 relation to Tim. Sheep will not lie down unless. 153 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:40,320 The the. Fear in their lives have been 154 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:44,080 sorted, Conflict, irritation and hunger. 155 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:46,160 They will not lie down if there's fear. 156 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:48,680 They will not lie down if there's conflicts, if there's 157 00:08:48,680 --> 00:08:50,840 any irritation, if they're hungry, they will not lie down. 158 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:52,840 And so the Shepherd begins there. 159 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:54,560 That's where he wants to tend to us. 160 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:57,640 He wants to go into your fears. What? 161 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:00,280 What are you? Fearing at the moment, I mean, 162 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:04,400 it might be as simple as fearing that Christmas, you know, lunch 163 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:06,840 with the family. Or your ex. 164 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:09,800 It might be finances, it might be storms. 165 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:12,600 You know, sheep are considered prey animals. 166 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:16,440 You know, when God thought let me create something, I'm going 167 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:18,360 to make it woolly pretty much to be eaten. 168 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:24,880 You know, we're going to make lions and humans and a lamb 169 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:28,480 loving Steven and his lamb chops and lamb Shanks and everything 170 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:30,920 in between. They are prey animals, you know, 171 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:34,960 and he calls us sheep. We are prey animals. 172 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:39,960 The enemy is out to finish us, and unless you're allowing the 173 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:43,320 Shepherd to tend to you, you're a sitting. 174 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:45,320 Duck sheep, you're a sitting sheep. 175 00:09:47,560 --> 00:09:50,880 And so he says, I'll make you lie down in green pastures. 176 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:53,200 Which means that he wants to tend to the. 177 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:56,600 Fears in your life? He wants to tend to the conflict 178 00:09:57,040 --> 00:09:59,400 in your life. Apparently sheep have a pecking 179 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:01,600 order. It's actually called a butting 180 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:05,680 order and if. There is a dominance. 181 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:08,400 Sort of overbearing. Sheep. 182 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:10,240 A weak sheep. Will not lie down. 183 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:12,560 Actually it will stand to the point of. 184 00:10:12,560 --> 00:10:14,920 Exhaustion. I was reading this. 185 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:18,560 I'm busy walking a road with a friend of mine and I read some 186 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:20,120 and cynics. Leaders eat loss. 187 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:22,760 I actually. Stuck it into my notes for. 188 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:24,280 Today I'll pop it. Up on the screen. 189 00:10:24,560 --> 00:10:26,480 He says the following. This is within a work context. 190 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:30,000 He says when staff have to manage dangers from inside the 191 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,680 organization, the organization itself becomes less capable of 192 00:10:33,680 --> 00:10:35,720 facing the dangers from the outside. 193 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:38,360 Danger inside is controllable. It should. 194 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:40,680 Be the goal of leadership to set a. 195 00:10:40,680 --> 00:10:44,400 Culture free of danger from each other, sheep against sheep. 196 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:47,680 One major sign of danger is when someone works to protect or 197 00:10:47,680 --> 00:10:48,880 promote. Themselves. 198 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:50,840 And. That's up on the screen. 199 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:52,760 I've actually this isn't Simon Cynic I. 200 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:55,960 Wrote in the side of my book. The gospel goes directly. 201 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:59,240 Against all of these. Because Philip. 202 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:01,400 Keller says in his Shepherd's Handbook. 203 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,600 He says when the shepherd arrives, the dominant. 204 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:08,760 Sheep back down I. Don't know what's going on in 205 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:11,120 your family dynamic work? I. 206 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:16,360 Don't know what's going on in your heart, but where there's 207 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:19,280 conflict when the. Shepherd arrives. 208 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:24,360 Those who are dominating. Ezekiel 30. 4 Muddying the 209 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:30,320 waters, butting heads back down. But we don't let him. 210 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:33,520 We don't let him tend our. Souls, I got this. 211 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:35,720 And so instead. Like the weak? 212 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:37,680 Sheep. We stay standing, Thirdly. 213 00:11:38,680 --> 00:11:41,520 Sheep do not lie down in green passes unless they are free from 214 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:42,520 irritation. I did a a. 215 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:45,040 Brand campaign for a company, I think it was. 216 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,280 AFRI vet or Coopers but it was all about the. 217 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:50,160 Dipping of sheep. And and the oils that you got to 218 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:51,560 put on the sprays and things like it. 219 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:54,680 And I can still remember so like burnt into my subconscious some 220 00:11:54,680 --> 00:11:56,400 of the. Pictures of these little 221 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:58,960 sheepies. Ravaged by tiny little 222 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:02,960 parasites. One of them I don't know if. 223 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:05,400 It was a specific. Flyer a really small insect. 224 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:08,200 Would lay its eggs. In the sheep's nose. 225 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:10,440 My nose has been. Itchy. 226 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:12,360 All week long prepping for today. 227 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:14,720 Just think. Imagine you having like 20 or 30 228 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:18,200 eggs hatching in your nose. And you can't do like your two 229 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:20,400 year old and stick your finger up there and sort the problem 230 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:22,040 out. And so the sheep would literally 231 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:27,000 bang their heads against a tree because they they cannot handle 232 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:28,520 this thing that's going on inside. 233 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:31,080 There or a parasite? Would would worm into their. 234 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:33,480 Ears, I see all of you rubbing your noses. 235 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:36,760 The parasites. Worm their way into the ears. 236 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:40,480 Can you imagine day and night? Or they would. 237 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:42,200 Infect a. Wound and keep that. 238 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:45,840 Wound festering. And so it goes on to say you 239 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:47,520 anoint my. Head with oil because that's 240 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:50,640 what the shepherd would do. He would oil the sheep's head to 241 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:52,080 keep. Away these insects. 242 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:53,560 And the shepherd wants to do that. 243 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:56,600 Sometimes it's so small. It's this tiny little thing. 244 00:12:57,200 --> 00:12:58,520 But it keeps. That wound. 245 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:00,600 Festering and the. Shepherd wants to tend. 246 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:04,200 To that. But it's by invitation only. 247 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:07,040 It doesn't beat you into submission. 248 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:10,080 He invites you so. Let me tend to that it. 249 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:12,120 Doesn't matter how small, how big. 250 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:16,160 And then lastly, hunger. This is what Philip Keller said. 251 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:17,720 He said a. Hungry sheep is. 252 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:18,880 Always on its. Feet. 253 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:23,240 How's your 2025? Always on your feet. 254 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:26,840 Another e-mail, another clients, another late nights. 255 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:30,160 Another working weekends, another distracted moments. 256 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:32,400 Can't just sit down and completely chill. 257 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:34,760 You're reading. You're trying to read your 258 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:37,000 Bible. Quiet time and your mind is. 259 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:42,120 Everywhere, always on your feet. And he wants to tend to even. 260 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:46,440 That, that's the sound. Of an untended soul and then 261 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:47,960 this. Is a quote from. 262 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:51,160 An Israeli shepherd, he. Says a sheep. 263 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:53,240 Our sheep will not close their eyes. 264 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:55,040 Unless. It sees the shepherd. 265 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,760 How beautiful is that? Sheep will not close the eyes 266 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:00,320 unless they. See the Shepherd. 267 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:03,800 How are you sleeping? How's the panic attack? 268 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:07,040 Anxiety, stress and pressure. It's all the. 269 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:11,960 Sign of an untended soul. So how does our. 270 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:13,360 Shepherd tend to us, He makes us lie. 271 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:15,600 Down in green pastures. And he? 272 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:19,920 Leads us beside still waters now I've. 273 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:23,200 Known this for quite some time. It's a similar. 274 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:25,080 Double checking a sheep will not. 275 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,320 Drink from rushing water. They're. 276 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:30,440 Terrified of rushing water. Yeah, I suppose in our mind it's 277 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:32,040 kind of like. Drinking from. 278 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:34,680 A waterfall, you know, you stand underneath there. 279 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:37,360 Plus they they. Glorified sponges. 280 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:39,280 You know, if you get yourself into the water, you. 281 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:45,720 Drown in seconds, but they will. Literally rather go without 282 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:47,960 water. They're the what's the dive 283 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:49,880 first? Then drink. 284 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:52,440 From rushing water. Plus you add to them. 285 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:55,040 The problem that. They apparently don't have the 286 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:57,440 best of smell or sights. They're a little dwarf, just 287 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:00,480 like us. And so they can walk right past 288 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:03,800 water and not drink and. Die as a result. 289 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:05,080 And So what? What is required? 290 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:06,520 There says he leads me besides still. 291 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:08,000 Waters in the. Hebrew. 292 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:10,360 It's the word mashka. He creates a mashka. 293 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:12,080 Which? Is which is a quiet pool. 294 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:14,720 That the sheep can come and drink from, and then he leads 295 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,160 them to that. So that they can find water. 296 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:21,560 Now I'm going to introduce you. To our dogs, I'll. 297 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:23,720 Ask my kids to give me a photo. Of our dogs. 298 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:25,440 And I'll. Show you the photo. 299 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:28,200 Any second now. I know I. 300 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:34,720 Do not be fooled, they found they found the picture when I 301 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:35,520 still. Like them? 302 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,960 So those are Italian grains. They are officially. 303 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:43,280 I'm going to get the certificate to prove it. 304 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:46,280 The dumbest. Animals ever to exist. 305 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:49,120 Ever. Seriously. 306 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:51,920 I've I've quoted Rodney Howard Brown, who often says like, how 307 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:53,240 dumb can you get and still breathe? 308 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:59,280 That's them actually I'm fully convinced if it's possible they 309 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:02,480 have a negative. IQ so they actually. 310 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:04,640 They drain intelligence out of a room. 311 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:05,000 Yeah. Oh. 312 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:08,280 My shimmy shimmers, You know, it's like. 313 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:10,960 I'm going to get. Stick for my kids tonight, true. 314 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:15,560 Story So anyway, they are Italian greys and so I love to. 315 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:17,080 Walk at Volvo. Sprites. 316 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:20,200 There's something cathartic. About those green spaces. 317 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:21,520 And so we decided, well, one day. 318 00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:24,080 I think John. Leilani and Kath myself. 319 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:27,480 We took our pets. And we went walking and it was a 320 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:28,920 hot day. It was in the 30s. 321 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:31,400 And the dogs just decided that's it, we're done. 322 00:16:32,520 --> 00:16:35,680 I'm like, what? Yeah, They're just not walking. 323 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:37,040 They're just standing there, tongues out. 324 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:38,560 They're dying of the. Heat, but they. 325 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:39,880 Will not move. I'm like. 326 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:43,000 There's no way. I'm carrying you, you will walk. 327 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:48,240 So there's me carrying the dogs. And Ted's like if. 328 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:50,280 They're hot, they need to drink. OK, fine, we go. 329 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:53,240 We're going to get them to drink, so we take them, I mean. 330 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:56,280 Vulva sprayed it's. Hundreds of millions of liters 331 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:58,200 of water just coming down beautifully. 332 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,600 But all these dogs drink, not a chance, you know, they just look 333 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:04,640 at you. So knowing a little bit about 334 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:06,560 sheep, I think, well, maybe it's because it's rushing water. 335 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:08,359 So I sort of try and make and that didn't work. 336 00:17:08,359 --> 00:17:09,880 So I scoop. Out some water. 337 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:14,640 You know, there's me. Flipping dogs and blah so and 338 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:17,359 the dogs are like what kind of? Sorcery is this, you know, it's 339 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:19,040 like. You're trying to kill me. 340 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:20,640 I'm like, throw them in the river. 341 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:23,319 No, I didn't. They were witnesses. 342 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,160 I think if I was like it, just absolutely. 343 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:28,440 Drove me not. They would not drink. 344 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:31,080 They were dying of this. Now before you look down at your 345 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:34,800 nose at those two, look down your nose at verse 2. 346 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,760 Because it says. He makes me lie down in. 347 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:45,120 Green pastures, but he leads me. Besides, still waters, so you 348 00:17:45,120 --> 00:17:46,680 just. Like Bear and Evie. 349 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,520 Just like the sheepies. Our Heavenly Father, our 350 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:53,160 heavenly Shepherd. Creates these pools of quiet 351 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:56,760 waters. Libraries and book shops. 352 00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:59,320 Full of resources. We have the. 353 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:02,640 World. Of technology in our pockets, we 354 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:05,640 have. Every app, every Bible study 355 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:09,920 resource, we have AI. We no longer need to read. 356 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:12,160 The Bible The Bible will read itself to us. 357 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:15,800 And then we come on a Sunday and it's. 358 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:18,520 This beautiful. Sound recording Quality 359 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:20,360 Auditorium. With. 360 00:18:20,360 --> 00:18:23,560 Carpeted climate controlled venue. 361 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:27,280 And we? Just won't drink. 362 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:36,720 He'll make me lie down in green passes, but he'll lead me. 363 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:39,160 Beside Stalwaters with this invitation. 364 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:44,480 A heavenly. Shepherd who says just come and 365 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:49,160 drink. So how does our shepherd tend to 366 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:52,440 tend to us as a sheep? He makes me lie down in green 367 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:54,240 passes. He leaves me. 368 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:57,440 Besides the waters. And he restores my. 369 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:02,320 Soul, he restores my. Soul, I don't know if. 370 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:05,440 Your Bible says he refreshes. My soul if it. 371 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:07,920 Does cross the? Dots and writes restores. 372 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:10,240 I know that. OK this is a way above my pay 373 00:19:10,240 --> 00:19:13,720 grade, but if my Bible. Said refreshes. 374 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:16,280 A wet wipe refreshes. You know, says. 375 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,200 God is far weightier than refreshes. 376 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:22,360 He restores. You know this. 377 00:19:22,360 --> 00:19:25,760 Word that Peppers. Throughout scripture to restore. 378 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:27,880 We find it in Isaiah 61 that says. 379 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:30,920 I will rebuild the. Ancient ruins. 380 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:32,400 I'll restore. Long. 381 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:36,320 Devastated places. I'll renew the ruined cities of 382 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:40,760 your lives that have been laid. Waste ravaged strip bare for. 383 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:43,360 Generations, you don't do that with a wet wipe, you do that 384 00:19:43,360 --> 00:19:44,840 with Almighty God. Who? 385 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:49,160 Wades into the ruin of your. Life to restore, Joel too, says 386 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:51,920 I will restore to you the years the local. 387 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:56,280 Just has eaten generations and years of ruin. 388 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:01,520 He restores. He desires to restore I. 389 00:20:03,760 --> 00:20:05,320 Mean what? A weighty word. 390 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:09,400 To restore your soul, your. Circumstances that which is. 391 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:15,680 Laid waste, Devastated. Lost years ruined. 392 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:20,360 Parts of your lives he restores now. 393 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:25,800 We had our. Family Christmas last night came 394 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:30,960 face to face. With generations of ruined. 395 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:35,120 Laid waste lives. And maybe you'll come face to 396 00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:37,680 face with that yourself. Or maybe you're the one. 397 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:40,440 With these devastated places that. 398 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:43,680 Have been devastated for. Generations had a conversation 399 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:46,440 with a friend. Who's facing his very first 400 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:48,920 Christmas as a divorced? Man. 401 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:52,760 And he's tried to. Restore things with his. 402 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:54,160 Wife, but she. Said to him, Listen, can you 403 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:58,520 just give us some space for December and he's going to have. 404 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:00,160 To go through. All the festivities without 405 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:04,440 access to his kids without access to his ex, without. 406 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:07,200 Access to the family that he's known for years. 407 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:11,120 I said to him that there is. A God who restores. 408 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:14,680 There is a God who restores. And it might. 409 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:18,360 Take years of trusting. And leaning and clinging. 410 00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:20,920 To but as. He makes you lie. 411 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:23,880 Down in green pastures. As he leads you, besides the 412 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:27,840 waters, he does all of that to restore your soul. 413 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:36,440 I've seen God restore. Disease he restores laid. 414 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:39,760 Waste. Medically impossible. 415 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,760 But she's fast. Asleep this morning completely. 416 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:48,640 Healed because he restores. He restores addictions. 417 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:54,440 Brokenness. Ruined relationships, that 418 00:21:54,440 --> 00:22:00,000 which? Seems impossible and I've often 419 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:04,360 lent into moments where especially when I'm sitting 420 00:22:04,360 --> 00:22:05,760 with. With couples about. 421 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:07,880 To get married, often lent into the. 422 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:09,960 Aspect of God where he is the God of. 423 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:14,600 Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and I'll lean in two. 424 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,000 Sides. Firstly, the fact that's to the 425 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:18,800 Jew. That do not consider. 426 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:21,160 The work of God. Or the blessing of God to truly 427 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,920 be. Blessing until it's reached the 428 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:25,600 third generation. So. 429 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,160 You can do incredibly well with your business, but as you know, 430 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:30,640 statistically the second generation almost wipe it all. 431 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:32,120 Out and the third. Generation, there's nothing. 432 00:22:32,120 --> 00:22:35,560 Left. That's not blessing in a 433 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:38,760 biblical view. It's blessing when the God of 434 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,880 Abraham passes on that inheritance to Isaac, who passes 435 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:46,000 it on to Jacob. But also the facts that because. 436 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,680 God is a God of generations. It means that at any moment when 437 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:51,560 you. Give the shepherd access. 438 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:54,000 To those generations generational. 439 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,800 Curses. And bloodline whatever is 440 00:22:56,800 --> 00:23:00,160 decimated through. The power of cross, because he 441 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:02,440 is the God who restores, and he will. 442 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,960 Sit and he'll watch generations of ruin, and he'll say, I want 443 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:10,000 to shepherd you, let me tend to. That. 444 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,680 Now we could spend all day. We could, actually. 445 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,840 Spend all this image just unpacking this, but maybe that's 446 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:20,760 homework. What I want to leave you with, 447 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,920 if you can pop up Psalm 23 up on the screen, I want you to see 448 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:26,680 something super. Important. 449 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:29,760 Who does it say is our? Shepherd. 450 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:35,160 Well then class, but notice how it's written. 451 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:37,920 Capital L. Capital O. 452 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:39,760 Capital R. Capital D. 453 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:42,600 Thanks. You can take it down in the 454 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:44,280 Bible in your Bible translations. 455 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:47,600 A lot of them will have Lord in caps. 456 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,000 And then Lord, where it's just capital L when is. 457 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,000 Lord, all letters. In caps. 458 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,280 It's referring to what? Is known as. 459 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,800 The Tetragrammaton. Which is an abbreviation of the 460 00:23:57,800 --> 00:23:58,480 name of. God. 461 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:01,480 Yahweh. And it's not the full name. 462 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:04,560 It was only Y. HWH. 463 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:06,600 And they did that because they're considered. 464 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,280 Yahweh as the. Highest and holiest. 465 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:14,880 Name of God, and so an Orthodox Jew won't even read. 466 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,560 The Lord as my shepherd, He would say something like. 467 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:22,960 The name is my shepherd. Considers the name of God this 468 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:26,160 high and holy. Name of Yahweh to holy for 469 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,520 fallen. Lips when they were transcribing 470 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:32,440 or or copying scripture, what they would do back in the 471 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:34,160 ancient Near East. You know you got to Quill and 472 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,080 you scroll. What they would have had. 473 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:38,120 To have done with this one in. Particular was they would. 474 00:24:38,120 --> 00:24:40,480 Write the. And then they put their quill 475 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,240 down and then they go to the cupboard and they get a brand 476 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,760 new quill. And they'd come across and they 477 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:47,880 wouldn't write the full name of God, They would just. 478 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:50,720 Write. YHWH. 479 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,400 And then they would take that and would it wouldn't write. 480 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:55,480 That's cool. Would not write anything else. 481 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:58,360 So. High and so holy is the name of 482 00:24:58,360 --> 00:25:01,560 God and the reason. Why it is considered? 483 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:04,120 The name above all names. Is because. 484 00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:08,680 It was the name God introduced himself as in the context of 485 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:12,840 covenant. Yahweh is the. 486 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:17,280 Covenant making and covenant keeping name of God. 487 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:23,000 And I labour this points because he's not saying a political 488 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:27,800 party is my shepherd, he's not saying a king is my shepherd. 489 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:32,040 He is saying the God who makes and keeps covenant is my 490 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:33,280 shepherd. And so. 491 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,600 Because he begins Psalm. 23 with. 492 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:38,680 The Lord. Yahweh is my shepherd. 493 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,840 That means that Psalm. 23. Is his. 494 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:47,080 Covenant commitment. To his sheep. 495 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:50,880 The whole. Of Psalm 23. 496 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,960 Is God's. Covenant commitment to his 497 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:58,200 people. The whole of Psalm 23. 498 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:05,200 Has his covenant commitment. To you covenant. 499 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:13,320 Unconditional. One sided made by. 500 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,920 God and God. Alone while Abraham slept. 501 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,120 He said I will. Covenant with you. 502 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:23,160 And if we? Were to say, well, what what are 503 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,600 the terms and conditions? He says there's no conditions, 504 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:31,360 but this is what I commit. To do as your Shepherd I. 505 00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:33,760 Commit that you will lack nothing. 506 00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:38,120 They'll make you lie down in green pastures. 507 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,120 He's saying I will commit. Covenantally. 508 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:46,720 To wade into your. Fears to fight, those battles to 509 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:48,160 deal. With that conflict. 510 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:51,320 Those irritations that festering. 511 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:54,480 Wound to make you lie down in green. 512 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,120 Pastures and to provide. Still waters. 513 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:00,840 I'll guide you along the right. Path. 514 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,520 For my namesake and even though you walk through the. 515 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:06,920 Valley of the Shadow of Death. You will fear. 516 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,160 No, it is my. Covenantal commitment. 517 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:13,280 To you. Because I will be with you. 518 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:15,480 My rod and my staff will comfort you. 519 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,920 I'll even prepare a table before you in the presence of your 520 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,120 enemies. And I'll anoint your head with 521 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:23,680 oil. So much so that your cup. 522 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:25,280 Overflows. You know what? 523 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,720 You can. Do with a covenant commitment as 524 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,560 you can, hold it before the guarantor and say listen, you 525 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,400 said. My cup would overflow. 526 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:38,360 Father, I need you to anoint my head with oil. 527 00:27:38,360 --> 00:27:40,520 I need you to come and fight for me. 528 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:42,520 I need. You to settle these fears. 529 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,280 Actually, more than that, Father, can I? 530 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:51,400 Hold you to your. Covenant commitment over me, and 531 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,320 surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my 532 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:56,600 life and I'll dwell in the House of the Lord forever. 533 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:06,160 Nothing fancy, nothing flashy, I just want you to know that this 534 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,720 is the name. I want to bless you with today, 535 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:12,600 so if you feel. Comfortable, I'm going to ask 536 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,200 you just to open your hands and. We're going to do what number? 537 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:18,400 6 calls the priest. To do, I'm going to put the name 538 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,880 of God upon you and trust that He'd bless you. 539 00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:26,360 So, Heavenly Father, as you have. 540 00:28:26,360 --> 00:28:28,280 Commissioned your priest to do I just want to. 541 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,400 Bless your people. With your name. 542 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:36,480 As shepherd, bless your. People, a heavenly shepherd 543 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,160 bless them in a way. That they will say. 544 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,560 I lack nothing you have completely. 545 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:47,360 Satisfied our souls. Bless them by making them lie 546 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,760 down in green passes. Father, you have committed 547 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:53,760 covenantly to make us lie down in green passes, and so I'll. 548 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:55,760 Bring you every fear in this room. 549 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:00,440 Those moments that we are dreading having to face and 550 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,920 those discussions that we need to make, have, and those people 551 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,280 we need to forgive. We bring you those fears and we 552 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,080 pray make us lie down in green pastures. 553 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:13,560 Those irritations, father that. That's struggling, that conflict 554 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:15,680 where we are. Hungry. 555 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,160 Where it? Seems like our souls insatiable. 556 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,120 Would you lead us beside? Quiet waters and I pray holy. 557 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,320 Spirit that you stir. Within us, a desire to drink. 558 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,040 Restore our souls. Restore generations of ruin. 559 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:32,120 Guide us along the right paths. For your name's sake, Father. 560 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:34,080 I don't know what 2026 holds, but. 561 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,400 You do. There are decisions we need to 562 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,840 make and we. Pray shepherd, Shepherd your 563 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:39,760 people. Guide us. 564 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:43,160 Along the right paths, for your name's sake, and for those who 565 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,680 are walking through the valley of the shadow of death, May they 566 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:48,000 fear no evil because you are with us. 567 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:49,960 May we know? You are with us, would you? 568 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,680 Bless them with your rod and your staff that you'd comfort 569 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:54,680 us. And prepare a table. 570 00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,440 Before us. In the presence of our enemies. 571 00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:02,520 Lord, we are prey. Animals protect us, anoint our 572 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,080 head with oil, allow our cup to overflow. 573 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:09,120 May we this time next year look back over 2026 and say. 574 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:11,520 Surely your. Goodness and mercy. 575 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:14,960 Have followed us all. The days of 2026 and that we 576 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:16,600 have dwelt in the House of the Lord. 577 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:20,360 In Jesus name bless your people. Amen.